Northwest Syria Cash Working Group Earthquake Response Bulletin

1. MPC response overview

As of 15 August 2023, a total of 758,473 persons or 150,882 families have been reached by MPC interventions.

A total of USD 24.8 million has been disbursed by 31 implementing agencies in 247 communities across 35 sub-districts.

Only beneficiaries who have received at least USD 100/family/month have been included; excludes sector-based activities such as non-MPC cash-for-food.

758,000 people reached with MPC, USD 24.8 million disbursed, 15 August 2023

governorate	district	comm.	partners	households	beneficiaries	total_usd	%_BNF1
Aleppo	A'zaz	15	13	5,903	24,491	716,257	3.23
Aleppo	Afrin	107	19	40,753	176,864	6,067,433	23.32
Aleppo	Al Bab	5	6	12,922	65,836	1,878,000	8.68
Aleppo	Jarablus	2	4	1,106	3,778	131,104	0.50
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	18	12	13,192	72,494	1,801,592	9.56
Ar-Raqqa	Tell Abiad	2	1	525	2,938	30,116	0.39
Idleb	Ariha	3	3	920	2,073	103,420	0.27
Idleb	Harim	57	23	76,081	326,105	11,048,526	42.99
Idleb	Idleb	21	15	15,602	68,691	2,555,776	9.06
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	18	6	3,641	15,203	440,330	2.00
Total	-	-	-	170,645	758,473	24,772,554	100.00
1As percentage of all MPC beneficiaries reached in NW Syria

In February 2023, 149,356 beneficiary frequencies were reached, and in March 2023 the number increased to 209,464. In April 2023 150,584 were reached. As of May 2023, 113,343 beneficiaries have been reached, followed by 95,290 in June, with 93,822 in July 2023 and 10,339 in August 2023.

This document distinguishes between beneficiaries, or unique individuals reached, and beneficiary frequencies, or the number of times people have been reached, inclusive of double counting.

1.1 Progress by date

The small number of beneficiaries reached earlier than February all pertained to the HRP, the only such beneficiaries reported so far. The CWG would like to encourage partners to report on their January achievements.

2. Map of activities

3. Geographic breakdown of beneficiaries

Coverage continues to be highest in Afrin and Harim districts, where the highest numbers of damaged houses and wounded people are located (though these areas do not necessarily have the highest proportions of damage).

Casualties and damaged houses, absolute figures and per 100,000 persons

governorate	district	wounded_dead1	wounded_dead_100k1	damaged_houses1	damaged_houses_100k1
Aleppo	A'zaz	356	57.87	276	44.86
Aleppo	Afrin	2,232	478.79	2,910	624.22
Aleppo	Al Bab	206	70.04	832	282.89
Aleppo	Jarablus	40	33.82	257	217.30
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	616	236.80	176	67.66
Idleb	Harim	8,449	507.65	3,230	194.07
Idleb	Idleb	350	48.23	946	130.37
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	595	183.68	1,915	591.18
1Data from the Assistance Coordination Unit, Syria 20230328;

Below is a breakdown of beneficiaries based on whether they originate from camps or villages. The majority of MPC beneficiaries are from villages.

More than twice as many beneficiaries from villages as from camps

village_camps	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
camp	119,640	15.77
village	269,672	35.55
NA	369,161	48.67

3.1 By sub-district

The plots below show the breakdown of beneficiaries by sub-district. Caution must be taken to ensure that allocations are fair across the affected areas: there are numerous sub-districts where a very large proportion of the total population has already been reached by multipurpose cash, in particular, Jandairis, Harim, Salqin and Sharan.

Response activities must be proportional with the magnitude and severity of earthquake damage. Over allocation deprives affected persons of the aid they are due.

The average percentage of the population reached, of all sub-districts, is 12.18%.

3.2 Planned activities

Whilst it is heartening to see new sub-districts, the majority of planned allocations have been accorded to areas that have already received relatively high levels of support.

4. Cash response actors and cash disbursed

USD 24.8 million has been distributed across 247 communities and 35 sub-districts in NW Syria.

Reach and footprint of cash response actors

implementing_partner1	beneficiary_freq	districts	communities
GOAL (GOAL)	175,716	4	96
Shafak Organization (SO)	168,701	8	39
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	94,708	3	22
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	58,251	9	37
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	51,098	6	32
Syria Relief (SR)	49,390	4	12
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	29,370	2	4
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	28,687	6	19
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	27,905	5	37
Violet Organization (VO)	27,400	3	24
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	19,673	4	10
Bahar Organization (BO)	17,500	2	7
People in Need (PIN)	12,804	5	6
World Vision International (WVI)	12,048	1	4
CBRTWG-031	9,298	2	6
Insan Charity	7,874	1	1
CBRTWG-033	7,609	5	12
Solidarités International (SI)	7,058	1	5
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	6,654	3	9
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	6,651	1	7
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	4,830	4	4
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	4,149	3	5
GMO -- Mercy Corps	3,957	1	1
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	3,800	3	3
Social Development International (SDI)	3,332	2	3
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	3,050	1	2
Bonyan Organization (BO)	2,951	1	4
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	2,692	3	3
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	2,676	7	12
Takaful Al Sham (TAS)	1,458	1	7
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	1,061	1	1
1Only partners who provided more than USD 100/family/month;

In the scatter plot below, each point is a single cash working group partner. The x-axis indicates the number of beneficiary frequencies reached per agency and the y-axis indicates the number of communities (admin4) reached. Mouse over each point for more details.

4.1 Cash disbursed per partner

Cash disbursed and families reached by partner

implementing_partner	total_usd	families	usd_per_fam	%_usd_total
GOAL (GOAL)	5,485,500	36,570	150.00	22.14
Shafak Organization (SO)	4,895,450	32,918	148.72	19.76
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	2,515,050	16,767	150.00	10.15
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	2,208,774	12,739	173.39	8.92
Syria Relief (SR)	1,552,158	9,796	158.45	6.27
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	1,484,550	9,897	150.00	5.99
Violet Organization (VO)	868,350	5,789	150.00	3.51
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	754,800	5,427	139.08	3.05
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	646,950	6,126	105.61	2.61
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	561,900	5,718	98.27	2.27
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	473,022	4,355	108.62	1.91
People in Need (PIN)	411,450	2,743	150.00	1.66
Bahar Organization (BO)	360,000	3,500	102.86	1.45
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	344,400	2,296	150.00	1.39
World Vision International (WVI)	301,200	2,008	150.00	1.22
Solidarités International (SI)	218,250	1,455	150.00	0.88
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	210,079	1,400	150.06	0.85
CBRTWG-031	196,970	1,585	124.27	0.80
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	179,250	1,195	150.00	0.72
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	170,000	700	242.86	0.69
Insan Charity	150,000	1,500	100.00	0.61
CBRTWG-033	125,420	1,348	93.04	0.51
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	122,948	841	146.19	0.50
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	91,500	610	150.00	0.37
Bonyan Organization (BO)	86,471	575	150.38	0.35
Social Development International (SDI)	82,650	551	150.00	0.33
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	81,000	540	150.00	0.33
GMO -- Mercy Corps	67,300	673	100.00	0.27
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	56,562	446	126.82	0.23
Takaful Al Sham (TAS)	48,000	320	150.00	0.19
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	22,600	257	87.94	0.09

The CWG is currently working with other Clusters to consolidate all cash-based activities and will soon be able to provide more comprehensive reporting.

4.2 Currency disbursed

A total of 90.07% of cash disbursed was in USD.

Proportion of cash disbursed by currency

currency	total_usd	%_of_total
TRY	2,459,047	9.93
USD	22,313,506	90.07
Total	24,772,553	100.00

5. Annexes

5.1 Interactive reference table at sub-district level

Columns include: governorate, district, sub-district, total population, beneficiaries, total usd disbursed, wounded and dead, wounded and dead per 100k, damaged houses, damaged houses per 100k, admin3pcode

5.2 Reporting quality

This section documents issues encountered in the cleaning of 4W and FSL data and their impacts on the quality of reporting the CWG can provide. The recommendations by the CWG are included to enhance reporting quality:

1. The CWG has adopted a new 4Ws template for monthly reporting, aiming to improve the documentation of the earthquake response efforts. The reporting deadline is set on the 15th of each month. In February 9 partners reported their achievements, In March 10 partners have reported their achievements, with 17 partners having reported in April, in May 18 partners have reported. 10 partners have reported in June, with 10 partners have reported in July, and 8 reported in August. If no MPC activities were implemented, please inform the CWG as well.

2. For this reporting period, activities pertaining to 19,121 beneficiaries were missing their dates or had dates in unreadable formats. Please ensure that the start date and end date are entered in the format (mm/dd/yyyy) and select the month of reporting from the options in the drop down menu.

3. For sex-and-age dis-aggregations, please do not back fill these columns using calculations based on the census or the MSNA. If no dis-aggregated data is available to your organisation, please leave these columns blank.

4. The Cash Working Group is currently only collecting planned and implemented Multipurpose Cash achievements. Whilst the CWG welcomes additional inputs on other CVA activities, we also want to ensure that the reporting load is as low as possible for partners i.e. if an agency has implemented Cash-for-Work, this should be reported to the ERL Cluster. The CWG will work with all Clusters to develop a consolidated picture of response-wide CVA interventions.

5. Please indicate in the previously_assisted column whether or not beneficiaries have been reached before. However, if the beneficiaries are being reported for the first time to the Cash Working Group, even if you have reached them before, please indicate No in this column. This column is used calculate to the number of unique individuals reached.